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We see Europe from an economic point of view. Germans, on the other hand, have a much broader, culturally and historically rooted agenda.

Celebrated British novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was born on June 2nd, 1840, in the village of Upper Bockhampton, Dorset. Encouraged in his love of literature by his parents (his father was a stone mason and violinist, and his mother a fervent reader), Hardy was educated from the age of eight at Julia Martin’s school […]

We need more people in the creative industries. Think the arts, computer programming, gaming, architecture and others.

I love visiting museums and art galleries, but currently it is becoming increasingly difficult to enjoy them in an atmosphere of respect.

Brooke was the ‘Golden Boy’ of the Georgian poets: WB Yeats famously referred to him as ‘the handsomest young man in England’

We all know a museum. Big or small they’re full of old stuff. You went there when you were a child, and you probably felt you had to keep quiet. You walked around, and you looked at some ‘artefacts’ and some displays. They were probably pretty interesting but you may not remember much about them? […]

The SNP’s almost total victory in Scotland should mean that more devolution of power will come their way, which will raise issues of legitimacy for any government formed in England.

No one was expecting a quick or clear result from the election, so we were told. Yet in the end, that’s more or less what we’ve got. But with a government that has so easily managed to keep the keys to number 10, what should we now expect to happen in education? And what would […]

The overall picture is that Britain continues to rely heavily on imported manufactured goods with an economy far too wedded to households retaining trade and credit.

Until Kepler, cultures had come up with a variety of explanations to try and understand why the Sun temporarily vanished from the sky.